soldat
Rudeness is merely the expression of fear. People fear they won’t get what they want. The most dreadful and unattractive person only needs to be loved and they will open up like a flower.
Are you okay on, like, life? Yeah. Yeah. I just haven’t eaten. Oh, let me make you something. No, I can’t. I can’t let you do that. What are you talking about? There’s… What-what do you want? An omelet? Yeah, I can make you an omelet. Yeah? Yeah. Go wait in the office. Thank you.
THE BEAR
— 2.09 “Omelette”
“Being an actress hasn’t made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.”
“dear diary, my teen angst bullshit has a body count…”
Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “A Writer’s Diary”
Clarice Lispector, from “A Breath of Life”
Patti Smith, from “Devotion”
Elena Ferrante, from “Incidental Inventions”
Marguerite Duras, from “Écrire”
Jane Austen’s writing table at Chawton Cottage, Hampshire
Charlotte Brontë’s writing desk on display at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, England
Virginia Woolf’s writing desk in her writing lodge at Monk’s House in Rodmell, Sussex
Reconstruction of Daphne du Maurier’s study at the Smugglers Museum, Jamaica Inn, Cornwall
























The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914–1920